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Dua and possibly Coldplay for me. I love Dua, she’s going to be amazing on the pyramid.

I was hoping for Pulp and Smashing Pumpkins (not sure if they had a GSH or not). Obvs Madonna too but she was always a bit of a stretch (though she is apparently doing an outdoor show in Rio in May so it isn’t the adapting the show to an outdoor stage factor that’s the problem, must be the money).

I’ve been going since 97 other than 4 years between 2014 and 2019 and haven’t noticed Cyndi on the bill other than one of the festivals I missed.. so I’m over the moon to see her this year. She slightly compensates for the lack of the true icon Madonna 😂

I’m happy with it. Definitely not a cutting edge packed line up like other years but it’s got about 30 acts I want to see and some I’m really excited about. They’ve done a decent job in a tricky year for festivals I think.

10am maybe?

I think it’s going to be a pretty good year based on the rumours, excited to see what’s actually on the poster.

Tuesday morning I reckon

Maybe Glastonbury will have one too this year.. fingers crossed.. looks amazing!

Pulp Ren BabyQueen The Breeders Holly Humberstone Avril Lavigne Any of the members of Boygenius Daughter Justice LCD Soundsystem M83 Stevie Nicks Cyndi Lauper (is she actually rumoured at all? Or are we all just wishful thinking?) Erasure OMD

Saw Ladyhawke at the Yellow Arch Studios in Sheffield last night .. wasn’t sure how much of her stuff I would know .. turns out she was playing her first album right through and I knew most of it. She was great.. would definitely see her again.

I used to listen to the odd Coldplay single about 20 years ago, but now my 9 year old loves them so we do listen to them quite a bit in the car. So I guess there’s a second wave of listeners.

Yes, on her first massive arena tour - the virgin tour.

There was an amazing karaoke bar micro venue in Shangri La one year.. had a great time there. Loved Minuscule Of Sound, if you stayed too long the bouncers came in and made you feel uncomfortable til you left 😂 One of my favourites was a tiny old caravan which had a 4 or 5 piece band squeezed into it with a big front window and a keypad on the outside so you could type in your choice of songs on the jukebox.. I think we selected Beastie Boys Sabotage, the band absolutely rocked!

The latest Erasure tour live album popped up on my Spotify this week and Andy bell sounds in fine form tbh… they’d be great on the farm.

Tramlines line up came out today.. a few things I’d probably see.. Holly Humberstone was great in Woodsies the other year.. not the most inspiring set of headliners tho.

If that festival line up could be rebooked at G24 that would be perfect. 😍

The more I see of her the more I like her.. she seems genuinely lovely and I’ve always loved her hits, Houdini is insanely catchy. Still don’t think I’d pay arena gig prices to see her but I’m super excited to see if she is headlining.

I though Billie Eilish’s set was visually quite impressive even though it wasn’t anything too complex.

Would love them to play Glastonbury.. haven’t seen them yet and don’t fancy the trek to APE..

Much as I love Madonna, Lana style arrogance and appalling time keeping would be a massive risk with her too.. on the celebration tour she’s been late pretty much every night, often by quite a bit. Sometimes it’s a genuine technical issue but they can’t have a technical hitch every night. i think it would be better for her reputation not to headline Glastonbury tbh, even though I’d love to see her there. There’s so much scope for it going wrong.

Other than festivals… in order of awesomeness.. Madonna - O2 Pulp - Sheffield Arena Self Esteem - Sheffield O2 Academy Baby Queen - Leadmill Dead Pony - Sidney and Matilda Suede - Sheffield O2 Academy Gaz Coombes - Leadmill

I do GIS for a living and might potentially be interested.

I sadly never made it to funkingham palace.. I can’t be wasting time queuing when there’s a whole festival of fun out there. I enjoyed Mad hatters tea parties in the early years of the Rabbit Hole.

That vogue clip is so badly recorded, you’re missing most of the music and backing.. it sounds a million times better live. Proves she’s singing live though! It’s a great show in person, the choreography and lighting is great, the performance impressive, her vocals sound very much live and beautiful. People will still pick her apart because she’s 65 and needs to take it a little bit easier these days but she still delivers a classic madonna performance that’s well worth seeing. It’s always been about the production with Madonna rather than her vocals being lady gaga level perfection. (I love Gaga too).

Agreed. She’s on a new career high, this tour is getting great reviews. It’s not perfect but it’s not far off.